WordPress
Matt’s Fall from Google
Everyone’s favourite version of Matt is no longer the number one Matt in the world. I heard he’s had trouble with the site since a small hacking incident. Hold on, Matt, you’ll be back up there in no time, hopefully.
Tags are not Categories
This shouldn’t be so hard to understand:
Tags are not categories.
Enough has been said about this already — I hate to be a semantics-fiend, and I dislike discussing things like tags with my hat on, all serious, but this one is clutching me by the throat.
Now the fact that wp.com reads the categories a post [...]
Registered Only Plugin Reworked
I finally got to rewriting the Registered Only plugin. The new version works on WordPress version 1.5.1 and 1.5. The older version had some issues. The new version is much lighter, and uses a core WordPress function, and so should work without any issues. If there are any issues, please report them at the wp-plugins.org [...]
Why machines filter spam better than humans
I couldn’t help laughing when I read Mako’s adventure with spam. What if a Nigerian email you, sincerely requesting collaboration on a project, or expressing a business interest in what you do? Well, this is what happens - your spam filter does not mark the mail as spam, while you do.
Mako’s blog makes me smile [...]
WordPress Easter Egg
No one’s talking about it, so let me do the honors
If you use wordpress 1.2, go to http://example.com/wp-admin/options.php?option_group_id=all
(where example.com/wp-admin is the URI of your wordpress wp-admin folder), for all the buttons and levers you’ll ever need.
Remember, too much change is not a good thing, and don’t blame me if you break something.
get_posts upgraded
The function get_posts is very useful, and in my opinion under-utilized. It also was incomplete, so I went ahead and completed it.
You can view and use my spanking new functions.php file if you want a complete get_posts.
get_posts is what should be used to get a bunch of posts (or even just one post) outside [...]
Post to WordPress from the Command Line!
CLI PHP5 - WordPress Blogger — Now post to WordPress from the command line! Does the fun never end? If you are all Keyboard friendly and wont be bothered to press buttons, or use a GUI (Graphical User Irritation? as GIMP calls it), then this is what the Doctor recommends. Hell, I find so many [...]
Look who’s talking
A map of connections between the members of the #wordpress IRC channel, updated to the second. Neat, eh?
Plugin : Registered Users Only
Update: Please get the plugin from the wp-plugins.org repository. You can file bug reports there as well. It makes it a lot easier for me to manage the plugin’s development.
I was gonna call this plugin “Bouncer” but settled for a more explanatory name instead.
This plugin will allow only registered users of your blog to view [...]
What wordpress brings my way
My ambition was to set a science fiction book in as far into the future as I could imagine, while not assuming anything presently known to be impossible.
- John C. Wright. (from Jef’s web files). What can I say about a man, who has two children called Orville and Wilbur Wright? Or who, when [...]
Terminal
I saw this movie, Terminal yesterday. Wonderful movie. I noticed that in a close up shot, Catherine Zeta-Jones’ face is shown in bad light, and the imperfections in her skin show up, but besides that, this is a movie that is different from the regular hit movie. A bit too oh-so-perfect what with all the [...]
Bob Bemer is to blame.
I had fun helping Jennifer fix a sinister problem with the entries she imported from Movable Type, yesterday. The backslashes were missing. I cannot describe what a backslash(a.k.a Reverse Solidus, or Reverse Virgule or Reverse Slant) looks like, cause I cannot type a backslash and have it appear in this post*. That is because WordPress [...]
Fixing WordPress “Press It” for FireFox 0.9
While trying to use the Press It! bookmarklet with FireFox 0.9, I got the following error :
Deprecated method document.getSelection() called. Please use window.getSelection() instead.
So I fixed the bookmarklet to be :
…createRange().text:window.getSelection();}void(window.open(’http://…
where it said
…createRange().text:document.getSelection();}void(window.open(’http://…
(changed document.getSelection() to window.getSelection() )
To fix yours, if you are using FireFox 0.9, right click on you Press It bookmarklet in the [...]
Template Editor on Steroids
Listing Templates for editing in WordPress is Charles’ attempt to increase the utility of WordPress’ template editor.
How to import your bookmarks/favorites from your browser into WordPress’ Link Manager
I thought it would be neat to be able to import Bookmarks/Favorites/Whatever-the-browser-calls-it into a WordPress weblog, and so I wrote this script that does just that, with some help from another website. I started on this since a user (Grod) on #wordpress wanted an xbel importer.
XBEL(XML Bookmark Exchange Language), is one of the [...]
